Staging of bony metastasis in breast cancer: are both CT and bone scan required?

New Zealand experience with implementation of the ESO-ESMO consensus guidelines for advanced breast cancer-report of achievements and lessons learned

“…This guideline was introduced as CT imaging has become refined to the point of picking up bone lesions much better than a bone scan does. This practice has been adopted from the United Kingdom ([ 7 , 8 ]). The second states that “in patients with advanced/recurrent TNBC, TILs should be quantified …” (Section VIII).…”